Lincoln Carpenter

Lincoln Carpenter

News Writer

Lincoln has been writing about games for 12 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.

Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter

The online character creation menu in Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve.
Sick: Ace Combat 8 has online airbase lobbies where you can bum around as your own bespoke pilotsona

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Unfortunately, it also has battle passes. War is hell.

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Key art for Dwarf Fortress showing a trio of dwarves exploring a cave system; Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams.
Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Much to consider.

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Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister of Technology during the gamescom 2026 at Koelnmesse on August 26, 2026 in Cologne, Germany.
CD Projekt Red opens its 'Arasaka hardware archives' to help an indie dev whose gear was stolen during 1 of at least 4 Gamescom thefts

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News In a statement, Gamescom organizers said attendees "are advised to insure equipment against theft."

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A large ghost in Haunted Chocolatier; Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone.
Haunted Chocolatier's development has been 'very productive' in recent months, Eric Barone says: 'Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News The Stardew developer says he's now "certain" he'll enjoy Haunted Chocolatier once it's finished.

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A nautolan sitting in Mos Eisley in Star Wars Galaxies.
I want MMOs to waste our time again

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

RESTORATION I've accomplished very little on a Star Wars Galaxies private server, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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Lucia from Grand Theft Auto 6 laying on a pink bed while scrolling on her phone
What do you think of the GTA 6 reveal?

By Andrea Shearon Published

Request for comment Was the Netflix preview everything you’ve ever wanted, or a dud?

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Request for comment
Two criminals waiting in a glossy club in Grand Theft Auto 6.
Cyberleek may have just cashed out on their GTA 6 leak, earning over $200,000 in the most predictable crypto rugpull ever performed

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Nobody could have foreseen this.

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Key art for the Dwarf Fortress Myth and Magic update, showing a dwarven wizard casting a spell beneath the looming, ominous figure of Armok.
Holy crap, it's happening: Dwarf Fortress gets its first Myth and Magic update later this year, bringing each player's world its own procedural magic system

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

"Everything that makes fantasy what it is—with every piece tied into how that particular universe works, down to its bones."

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Tim Curry as Premier Anatoly Cherdenko in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3.
Tim Curry, Red Alert 3 star and camp icon of stage and screen, dies aged 80

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Curry's incomparable acting career saw him starring as Soviet premiers, primordial clown horrors, and captains of Muppet crews.

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An overclocked Mega Man with a series of heatsinks exposed in Mega Man: Dual Override
God help us, they overclocked Mega Man

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

That's going to void a warranty for sure.

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A player character defends an NPC in Tarae: The Unbound.
Tarae: The Unbound is an 'Eastern dark fantasy' action RPG, and I for one am here for K-Diablo

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Featuring one of my favorite ARPG class archetypes: Guy With Gun.

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A dragon in Nodusfall.
The next game from Hoyoverse sure looks like someone put Elden Ring's clothes on Monster Hunter

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Who among us doesn't love to sever the Dreadnodus?

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GTA 6 protagonist Jason holding a smartphone.
GTA 6 leaker goes full cornball in newest videos, insists 'using crypto is the only way'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Man, give it a rest.

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Jason Duval and a friend from Grand Theft Auto 6. They're standing side by side looking at the man's phone and seem surprised by what they see.
Latest GTA 6 leak confirms full dong

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News It's perfectly natural.

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Jason and Lucia from GTA 6.
Former Rockstar dev says the GTA 6 leaks are a 'nothing burger': 'There won't be much damage'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News The Cyberleek debacle is no Hot Coffee.

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A robot competitor undergoes pre-competition testing at the National Speed Skating Oval to prepare for the upcoming Second World Humanoid Robot Games on August 19, 2026 in Beijing, China.
Robot Olympics runner bravely sprints headfirst into wall and collapses in shower of sparks, is not a metaphor

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News This is not an event imbued with meaning.

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Protagonist Jason Duval in Grand Theft Auto 6.
Cyberleek's still at it: Another GTA 6 leak shows 2 full minutes of high speed driving, surprisingly few crashes

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News The latest video features a new threat: "HIGHER MARKETCAP = MORE LEEKS."

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The protagonist of Black Myth: Zhong Kui playing music accompanied by a trio of skeletons.
Black Myth: Zhong Kui's 15-minute gameplay reveal shows off confident swordplay, boss fights with oyster men, and the coolest skeletons I've ever seen

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Look at those guys! Look at those guys!!

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A Palworld character from its launch cinematic; key art of No Man's Sky travelers.
Palworld and No Man's Sky are intensifying their months-long flirtation, and if those two don't just kiss already, I'm going to lose my mind

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Get it over with!

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A younger Turalyon, from World of Warcraft: Midnight, looks surprised at something off-screen during a vicious battle.
WoW's haunted: Players report that their disconnected friends' characters are starting to play the game on their own

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Who's playing when the player isn't?

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Sean Bean performing the "one does not simply walk into Mordor" bit in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
A dev tried to warn WB Games not to launch Lord of the Rings: War in the North 10 days before Skyrim, but was 'overruled'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News As a wise tree guy once said, "We must not be hasty."

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A 3D reconstruction of a trebuchet launching a missile at a castle.
Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Mordre is so wlatsom and abhomynable.

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Thanquol, a Grey Seer, reaches out towards that beautiful, blow-uppable, snortable warpstone moon in a cinematic trailer for Total War: Warhammer 3 - Lords of the End Times.
The Lords of the End Times are landing in Total War: Warhammer 3 on September 24, and everything's coming up rat men

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News And skeletons. And demons. And—well—everything bad, really.

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Author Stephen King visits the SiriusXM Studios on September 26, 2017; Kiefer Sutherland drinking a Calorie Mate energy gel as Jack Bauer; Snake rides D-Horse in MGS5
How Stephen King watching a train hit a kid led to Kiefer Sutherland making his videogame horse crap on command: A PC Gamer Causality Chain™

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

🔗 Many of our greatest works are downstream of terrible woe.

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A player character fishes for shrimp in Old School RuneScape
In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News "This is getting entirely too much attention."

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